Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

Our demands are simple, normal, and therefore they are difficult to satisfy. All we ask is that an actor on the stage live in accordance with natural laws

- Stanislavisky, Konstantin

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

I know of no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their strict execution.

Grant, Ulysses S.

People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have must to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.

Burke, Edmund

Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably.

Capote, Truman

We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of it. Within us lurks the breaker of all laws, ready to spring out at the first real opportunity.

Duncan, Isadora

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

Gandhi, Mahatma

He who goes to law for a sheep loses his cow.

Proverb, Spanish

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Butler, Samuel

Law school taught me one thing; how to take two situations that are exactly the same and show how they are different.

Pomerantz, Hart

God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime.

Stirner, Max

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A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.

Puzo, Mario

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Somebody figured it out -- we have 35 million laws trying to enforce Ten Commandments.

Wilson, Earl

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It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour.

Jefferson, Thomas

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The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

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Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Mizner, Addison

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Fish die when they are out of water, and people die without law and order.

Talmud, The

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The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Frost, Robert

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I have enforced the law against killing certain animals and many others, but the greatest progress of righteousness among men comes from the exhortation in favor of non-injury to life and abstention from killing living beings.

Asoka

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We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them

Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson

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The only road to the highest stations in this country is that of the law.

Jones, Sir William

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The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Syrus, Publilius

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Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.

Gladstone, William E.

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The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.

Chandler, Raymond

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It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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No civilization would ever have been possible without a framework of stability, to provide the wherein for the flux of change. Foremost among the stabilizing factors, more enduring than customs, manners and traditions, are the legal systems that regulate our life in the world and our daily affairs with each other.

Arendt, Hannah

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Anybody who thinks talk is cheap should get some legal advice.

Jones, Franklin P.

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The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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We should have learnt by now that laws and court decisions can only point the way. They can establish criteria of right and wrong. And they can provide a basis for rooting out the evils of bigotry and racism. But they cannot wipe away centuries of oppression and injustice -- however much we might desire it.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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In a democracy -- even if it is a so-called democracy like our white-?litist one -- the greatest veneration one can show the rule of law is to keep a watch on it, and to reserve the right to judge unjust laws and the subversion of the function of the law by the power of the state. That vigilance is the most important proof of respect for the law.

Gordimer, Nadine

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An incompetent attorney can delay a trial for years or months. A competent attorney can delay one even longer.

Younger, Evelle

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The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Chandler, Raymond

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Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.

Martineau, Harriet

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I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters.

Keats, John

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If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.

Halifax, Edward F.

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Laws are felt only when the individual comes into conflict with them.

Lafollette, Suzanne

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I want to live perfectly above the law, and make it my servant instead of my master.

Young, Brigham

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Here lies one believe it if you can, who thought an attorney, was a honest man.

Epitaph

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Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.

Engels, Friedrich

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The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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All breathing, existing, living, sentient creatures should not be slain nor treated with violence, nor abused, nor tormented, nor driven away. This is the pure unchangeable law.

Sutrakritanga

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There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principles of fear or reason, but from passion.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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Those laws, being forged for universal application, are in perpetual conflict with personal interest, just as personal interest is always in contradiction with the general interest. Good for society, our laws are very bad for the individuals whereof it is composed; for, if they one time protect the individual, they hinder, trouble, fetter him for three quarters of his life.

Sade, Marquis De

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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Under any conditions, anywhere, whatever you are doing, there is some ordinance under which you can be booked.

Sprecht, Robert D.

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The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.